“I couldn’t believe it… I didn’t think anyone in their right mind would use it that way.” Auto-Tune is not just the inhuman warbling debuted by Cher in 1998. This staple of today’s pop music is much ...

Typically, the music-streaming public remains at arm’s length when it comes to tricks and tips that artists use in the recording studio — it’s too nerdy, too complicated, and only useful to obsessives ...

In January of 2010, Kesha Sebert, known as ‘Ke$ha’ debuted at number one on Billboard with her album, Animal. Her style is electro pop-y dance music: she ...

On The Vergecast: how a simple pitch-correction plugin became a dominant sound in music, and how the next technical revolution might follow its lead. On The Vergecast: how a simple pitch-correction ...

It happened exactly 36 seconds into the song—a glimpse of the shape of pop to come, a feel of the fabric of the future we now inhabit. The phrase “I can’t break through” turned crystalline, like the ...